D2S hangs at start of CCE interaction with AVI source

[equilibrium]

I will try my very best to not break any Forum rules here, so bear with me when I refer to the source material and if I do break a rule plz forgive me :)

Recently I sucessfully converted ten HD XVID avi's to ten dvd iso's with D2s and a lovely job was done and I have watched them all on my DVD player on my TV and they are great. Even converting the audio and choosing the NTSC to PAL option was still fine.

I upgraded the hardware in my PC so I did a rebuild. I followed the procedures that I have for the last 2+ years to re-install the software I need for DVD authoring. I am using CCE 2.5 dvd2svcd 1.2.3b1, I have the APSI gear installed, I have the latest DIVX package installed, I have WINDVD installed and therefore have decoder support on the machine etc. etc.

GET TO THE POINT :o

I am trying 3 more 'episodes' (SORRY :D ) and each one gets as far as D2S auto typing the location of the .avs file in the first CCE dialog and then everything freezes for ever unless I kill off the dvd2svcd process. I have tested a dvd to dvd encode and verified that is OK on my rebuilt machine, so it is only an issue with avi's.

Any ideas appreciated.

There's not much to see in the log:

WNASPI32.DLL 4.6.0.1021
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- 01/02/2006 17:35:00
- AVI to SVCD Conversion
- AVI2DVD ver. 1.2.3 build 1
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Initializing
- D:\**blanked**
Initializing finished.

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- 01/02/2006 17:35:02
- Free on drive C: 50205.32 mb
- AUDIO Extraction
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Undoing Nandubs 1152 BlockAlign value to 1
Redoing Nandubs 1152 BlockAlign value
Audio extraction finished.

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- 01/02/2006 17:35:19
- Free on drive C: 50205.32 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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- 01/02/2006 17:35:21
- Free on drive C: 50205.32 mb
- AUDIO conversion
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Converting MP2 to WAV. Filename: C:\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.mpa
Executing MADPlay (mp2 to wav). Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\MADPlay\madplay.exe" --quiet --output=wave:"C:\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2.wav" "C:\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.mpa"
Conversion (mp2 to wav) of C:\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.mpa finished.


Encoding Audio. Filename: C:\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.mpa
Executing BeSweet. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\BeSweet\BeSweet.exe" -core( -input "C:\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2.wav" -output "C:\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.mp2" -logfile "C:\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.log" ) -ota( -g max -r 23976 25000 ) -shibatch( --rate 48000 ) -2lame( -e -b 256 -m s )
Audio conversion of C:\Movie\Extracted_audio_1.mpa finished.

Audio conversion finished.

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- 01/02/2006 17:39:16
- Free on drive C: 50301.30 mb
- Video Encoding using Cinema Craft
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[equilibrium]

I read in a couple of other threads that GSpot could be used to identify the codec used to do the encode. Also that the clip should be previewed in D2S first before encoding.

I found that in the prview I had a message about failing to understand the fourcc code for the xvid source. So I tried the ones I had successfully done in the past and they also had an issue so I installed XviD codec v1.1.0 for Windows from http://download.divxmovies.com/XviD-1.1.0-30122005.exe and then previewed the source again and everything was fine.

As I said earlier I already had the DIVX codec installed.

The only weird thing is that I have never knowingly installed the xvid codec before when it used to work! Maybe it used to be included in the divx install and isn't anymore or maybe I used to install the filters from doom 9's download section and that covered it? Don't know. But I'm OK now.

Cheers

[khaoohs]

Well Holy Shnikes this actually fixed the same problem I'm having right now. Thank you so much. =)

Who woulda guessed it, I can play these xvids fine on my machine, but they just wouldn't encode.

I read in a couple of other threads that GSpot could be used to identify the codec used to do the encode. Also that the clip should be previewed in D2S first before encoding.

I found that in the prview I had a message about failing to understand the fourcc code for the xvid source. So I tried the ones I had successfully done in the past and they also had an issue so I installed XviD codec v1.1.0 for Windows from http://download.divxmovies.com/XviD-1.1.0-30122005.exe and then previewed the source again and everything was fine.

As I said earlier I already had the DIVX codec installed.

The only weird thing is that I have never knowingly installed the xvid codec before when it used to work! Maybe it used to be included in the divx install and isn't anymore or maybe I used to install the filters from doom 9's download section and that covered it? Don't know. But I'm OK now.

Cheers

[Luper_PT]

same problem for me, but only when I uncheked the option of using xvix to open other sources divx... at the end of installation.